Born #onthisday1875 Isabel May Tweddle Australian #painter interested in #Post-Impressionist art Member of Melbourne Society of Women Painters and Sculptors exhibited at Victorian Artists Society exhibited works from trip to Solomon Islands New Guinea & Japan in London
Born #onthisday1901 Sybil Craig Australian #painter Kept a studio on Collins Street Melbourne from 1936 to 1951 Appointed by Australian War memorial as an official war artist & was first woman to paint women working in the munitions’ factories
Born #onthisday1868 Édouard Vuillard French #painter #graphicartist #printmaker influenced by Gaugin Member of Nabis Subjects blended into colours & patterns Assembled areas of pure colour Interior scenes influenced by Japanese prints post-1900 1920s & 1930s #portraitpainter
Born #onthisday1883 Charles Demuth American watercolorist turned to oils later in career developing Precisionism style with Georgia O'Keeffe &Charles Sheeler Sensuous watercolors of flowers fruit & vegetables combined magical botanical precision with a relaxed Cubist abstraction
Born #onthisday1667 Christoph Agricola German #landscape #painter primarily in oils & gouache & produced several etchings painted idealistic landscapes & nature scenes mainly cabinet pictures with remarkably skillful representation of weather like thunderstorms & nocturnal scenes
Born #onthisday1837 Émile Bayard French #artist & #illustrator Signature work was illustration of Victor Hugo’s Cosette from Les Miserables Worked in #drawing charcoal #lithographs #engravings #watercolours #woodcuts & #paintings from 1857 to 1864 Illustrated books 1880s – 1890s
Born #onthisday1883 Marie Laurencin French #painter & #printmaker Influential artist in Paris’ #avantgarde movement & #Cubists associated with Section d'Or Worked with #painting #watercolour #drawing & prints Distinctive style of #abstraction around groups of women & animals
Born #onthisday1888 Nils Dardel Swedish #Post-Impressionist #painter Inspired by #Fauvist with preference for a pure palette & Japanese #woodcuts Also experimented with #Cubism painting several #cityscapes in the style & explored #pointillism’s clear motifs & strong colorus
… styles Picasso’s artistic style evolved during his career but held firm to unique insight into the human condition brought to life by large colourful surfaces and distorted proportions merging representational images with abstract
Born #onthisday1581 Domenichino Italian #Baroque #painter belonging to Bolognese School Work is illustrative of classic-idealist art form popular at the time & intended to surpass imperfections of nature by developing an Idealised Concept of Beauty by drawing on ancient concept